In the fight at Steenkoolspruit, near Wilmansrust, 20 miles south of Middelburg, in the Transvaal, where a detachment of 250 of the Fifth Victorian Contingent was ...
Article : 62 wordsBy the choice or the Pariament-houses in Spring street the Federal Government and membares have brought down on their heads the wrath of some of the members of ...
Article : 1,550 wordsDuring a short discussion on a motion by Senator Drake (Q.), that the enacting words of the Post and Telegraph Bill should he amended by leaving out the word ...
Article : 929 wordsThe anxiety of the community to learn full details of the disaster at Wilmaransrust was allayed yesterday morning, when the list of casualties was posted outside "The ...
Article : 505 wordsA suggestion which (says our London correspondent) finds considerable favour in Ministerial circles, is that, in recognition of the services rendered by the colonial ...
Article : 96 wordsBENDIGO.—The 5th Battalion Infantry Brigade tendered a social to a number of returned soldiers on Wednesday night, and there was a large attendance, the commanding officer. Captain G. ...
Article : 302 wordsEight Boer commandos, eomprising 1,500 men, are operating in the midland districts of the Cape Colony, while the number of raiders operating in the western districts ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 110 wordsPrivate Archibald Edward Mack (1,610) waa wounded on June 16, and died from his wounds afterwards. He was 26 years of age, single, and resided at 70 ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 102 wordsThe volunteers at Heidelberg, 30 miles south of Johannesburg, have captured a Boer laager in the vicinity of the town. They took nine prisoners, and seized 4,500 ...
Article : 40 wordsThe tremendous fire which broke out two or three days ago at Galernij Island, in the Baltic, where there are three Government shipbuilding yards, is still ...
Article : 131 wordsM. Delcasse, the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has informed the French, Cabinet that the powers have agreed on the amount to be paid by China as a war ...
Article : 98 wordsHis Excellency writes:-"For the whole of the state of Victoria and myself I most earnestly offer the deepest sympathy in the sorrow and ...
Article : 165 wordsThe commando under Commandant Beyers, which has been operating north of the Pretoria-Delagoa Bay railway, is laagered in a deep kloof, or valley, on the ...
Article : 61 wordsCaptain Edmund Edward Righetti was a member of H Company, Victorian Mounted Rifles, before joining the first contingent is a private. He was made lance-corporal, ...
Article : 1,478 wordsA British patrol has been, captured by 150 Boers. The British, who were surrounded by the Boers, had two killed and two wounded, the remaining 20 being ...
Article : 45 wordsGreat Britain has notified to the other powers that she refuses to consent to an application by China for permission to increase the duties on opium and rice to ...
Article : 48 wordsMr. Ewart Scott Grogan, a young traveller, who in 1898-1900 traversed Africa, and published a work entitled "From Cape to Cairo," in 1900, reported having ...
Article : 136 wordsColonel Hoad, in speaking of the disaster which had befallen the Victorian troops, endorsed what he had said in the interview published in "The Argus" yesterday. He ...
Article : 99 wordsThe total number of Boer prisoners in the hands of the British is now 19,242. [There are Boer prisoners in the Cape Colony, India, Ceylon, and Bermuda, and ...
Article : 40 wordsWith reference to the announcement that the Peking-Paotingfu railway authorities had received a notification to prepare for the transport of 3,000 Chinese troops to Peking, ...
Article : 71 wordsLast evening the Premier of Victoria circulated in the Legislative Assembly copies of the agreement proposed to be entered into by the state and federal ...
Article : 340 wordsThe 45 Boers captured on the 6th inst. by General Elliot in his fight with De Wet near Reitz, in the Orange River Colony, were in a deplorabe state as regards ...
Article : 50 wordsParticulars of each of the men named in the lists are given below, with explanations where there is any doubt as to who is meant:— ...
Article : 1,165 wordsHer Majesty the Empress Alix of Russia has given birth to a fourth daughter. (A direct male heir to the throane of Russia was grently desired by the Czar and ...
Article : 49 wordsIt is reported that Mr. Kruger is selling his Transvaal and other South African securities, and reinvesting the proceeds in Consols, French rentes, and other ...
Article : 40 wordsA trial has been made of the French submarine torpedo-boat Narval, which was launched at Cherbourg in 1899. The vessel was under water for 12 hours. ...
Article : 110 wordsIn conseauence of the imposition of import duties or Russian petroleum by the United States, l'ussti has l-esolveil to nn pose duties on American resion and ...
Article : 37 wordsThe troopship Bavarian, 10,376 tons, has left Cape Town for England with 850 of the Manchester militia and 600 of the South Staffordshire militia. ...
Article : 35 wordsPrivate Charles Wilson, Elsternwick, Private Thomas M. George, Kyabram, Private John Fanning, Brunswick. ...
Article : 15 wordsThe Cretan Chamber of Deputies has forwarded a petition to the four proteeting. powers, Great Briten, France, Russia, and Italy, playing for the union of the island ...
Article : 153 wordsSquadrons A and B of the fourth Victorian contingent have left Tarkastad for Queenstown, on the East London railway. They will go by train to East London, and ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 57 wordsFurther details are published 0f the proceedings at Colehester, in the ease of the man believed to be Arthur Blatch, who says his name is Charles Lillywhite, and who ...
Article : 152 wordsMr. Marsden, the Government architect, has furnished the Minister for Public Works with the following memorandud on the question of the bleak and cold condition ...
Article : 450 wordsSir John Forrest was absent owing to the dangerous illness of his brother in Western Australia. Sir William Lyne is confined to his house in Sydney through ...
Article : 1,104 wordsA casual remark made by a lady who called at the General Post-office on the 7th inst. led to an extraordinary discovery. She informed the Postal ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 191 wordsThe Australian bowls team played a match against Leioester yesterday, but were defented by the local club by six points. ...
Article : 180 wordsSome weeks ago Mr. Marens Beresford placed in our hands the sum of £1.000, to be given to St. Vincent's Hospital in order to extend the accommidation for the sick ...
Article : 194 wordsHerbert Albert Jack, of Prinees-street, Carlton salesman.Causes of insolvency — Adverse judgement in court of petty sessions, Melbourne, pressare of creditors, ...
Article : 131 wordsCouncillor G.S. Waltar, hon. secretory of the port melborne committee, desires to ae[?]know ledge the following further sums:—Collected by Councilar G.W.Robbins — p. Fr[?] 10[?] A.S. ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 20 Jun 1901, Page 5
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